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TIL that Pablo Picasso's full name has 23 words and 103 characters. His full name is 'Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso'

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QNLB6 TIL, after the death of 27-year-old physicist Henry Moseley at Gallipoli (WWI, 1915), the British Government placed a ban on other scientists of repute serving in front-line roles. Ernest Rutherford believed that Moseley's work would have earned him the Nobel Prize.
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